General Store

Aesthetics are everything here! I love to stop on in just to see it all. A lot of neat things you would expect to find in hipsters paradise. However I wouldn’t actually ever get any of those things just because of the high price tags. Quality things though I supposed, but for now, its just a nice place to stroll by. The backyard is a must stop, with the cutest little greenhouse and when I say little I mean LITTLE. It’s enough for a person to walk in and turn around, but it’s still adorable.

Fantastic part of the Outer Sunset. The collection is very stylish. Soaps, women’s clothing, succulents, zineish books, and other artful things.
They do great gift wrapping.
I always feel energized after going here. Most of the items are too expensive for me at the moment, but I occasionally find things at the right price points.
I think there’s a dressing room, but I’ve never tried that.
The store is designed beautifully. Wooden tunnel center is a big feature. Check out the beautiful backyard.
It reminds me a lot of Establish on Noriega. I wonder if General Store is run by the same people as either Establish or Carville Annex.

The General Store is not just centered around having eclectic and chic wares, it is also a sweet sanctuary where you can comfortable browse without a sales clerk breathing down your neck. The girls who work there are helpful and sweet, but let you do your thing as you walk around and look through the myriad of goods. There is a backyard that will even give you cute gardening ideas. I got my Baggu purse there and I love it. The General Store actively supports consciously minded brands and bay area up-​and-​comers. If you’re lucky you’ll come in on a day when Becca is working, she is the best!

Rejoice in hipster paradise! A selection of carefully curated, egregiously overpriced items ranging from $ 28 twig slingshots to $ 50 organic honey. They have a succulent sanctuary greenhouse in the backyard complete with distressed wooden door! Tree stump seating! Geometric metal wind chimes! Disaffected staff! Bags with the logo stamped on them! A book of Polaroid photos of mushrooms! Funky hats! Pimple mud!

$ 30 for apartamento magazine whereas elsewhere it’s $ 20… There was no price tag stating it was $ 30 in the shop, we were told at the till as we were gonna buy it. When asked why it was $ 10 more than anywhere else, the lady replied «you know, it happens… It comes from spain»… What does she mean it happens? She’s ripping of everyone by $ 10 that’s all.

Meh. Nice, but way overpriced.

I want to love this store, but the customer service is outrageously poor. I would flip out if I was the owner. I’ve been in the store on numerous occasions with the same experience (oddly with different employees), the last time being only a few days ago. The woman working there not only was unaware of where the products were made and whom by, but also couldn’t be bothered to ask if we needed help or even offer a simple «hello» when we entered the empty store. It was very clear that we were looking for a gift and it would’ve been nice if some suggestions were offered or at the very least some assistance with prices, so we didn’t have to reach into the window display ourselves to look underneath things. I’ve bought jewelry, ceramics and some Manoogian pieces in the store, but after this last experience I won’t be returning. There is no excuse for an employee to pay more attention to their Spotify playlist than customers in the store. Disappointing.

Appearances are definitely deceiving at this shop.
It looks adorable and the selection of products range from natural cosmetics to locally made goods. These types of goods are priced higher understandably but the markup this shop puts on their goods is ridiculous.
Also, when I entered the shop I saw a single employee chatting with another customer towards the back. I was only there to browse, so I wasn’t bothered by the lack of customer service. However, as I started browsing towards the back, the employee started giving me the dirtiest look as if I was interrupting her conversation with the other customer. Needless to say, I left the store feeling very uncomfortable.
If you’re in the neighborhood and you have money to spare and don’t care much about customer service. This shop is bound to have some sort of knickknack that will catch your attention.

Lovely little spot with beautiful greenhouse in the back (ideal for picture taking). I didn’t find much that i wanted to take back home with me but it’s worth a quick stop if your waiting for a table at Outerlands

Bad customer service! Was given a wedding gift from the store and I went to exchange it and was informed there was a two week return policy, which as the recipient I did not know. It was one week pass the policy and the associate said she would have to call the owner to ask. I was given a call a day later saying that they would not accept the return. Their loss since I would have spent three times the amount of the original gift, but instead I will never shop there. So much for shopping local when the stores don’t want to support the locale clientele.

I love this little store— like someone said, it was very well curated, however, quite expensive. I think this is to be expected for boutique items and independent designers who are trying to support themselves by creating good quality/​original pieces.

Cute store.
Overly priced.
And to make things worse the employee in there was giving everyone dirty look, unless that is that her face is just like that. She stares and gives nasty looks.
I won’t be back it’s awful.

I was excited to shop at the General Store because I think its aesthetic is very appealing and I actually love the selection of products they have. I was really excited to shop here and really expected to like the store. I was familiar with their Instagram page, their website, and I’d actually visited the store before I actually purchased stuff there today. Once I became an actual consumer, though, I became super disillusioned.
The entire shopping experience here is like an episode of Portlandia. Almost everything seems ridiculously overpriced (though to be fair, the quality is high), even for San Francisco. The selection is pretty predictable. I really got annoyed when I went to check out: the three employees at the store at the time were all behind the tiny register, and only one was able to help customers. She was not afraid to take a long time talking to each customer, so I waited for about 10 minutes, even though only two people were ahead of me. Each employee I encountered talked in a weirdly quiet voice, and the store played the most predictable indie music possible. It took forever to pay because they use an archaic payment system, like a Square prototype. Overall, just really annoying: bad service and overpriced goods.

Droppd by today after having lunch in the area. I was excited to visit this place after seeing the pics here on Unilocal.But I was really disappointed with the merchandise and really high price.
Don’t get me wrong, some of the products are nice, cute and kitschy; however it doesn’t justify the prices the store is asking for… General Store has a similar mix of products that can be similar to the stores along Valencia at the Mission but it’s not as much and again, the price is just way too much.

The recent May 2014 «C» magazine article brought us to the Sunset district to check out The General Store at the end of Judah Street this weekend. Overall, a nice selection of small gifts and art objects for the home.
A huge turnoff was the disinterested staff, who was overhead talking about a recent hire who had worked at Tartine, which explains, oh so much, as the attitude at the bakery is far worse than this place. Pity the shop owners see the need to hire such folks, as the service alone dissuaded me from purchasing a small lava vase.
The «C» article notes that the General Store has a «lovely garden filled with happy succulents». Too bad its employees are not equally as happy as the plants in the greenhouse.

It’s too bad that the staff at General Store seem generally uninterested in helping their general customers, on any general day.
It’s just generally too bad, because the General Store generally seems to have some generally what’s up local items and they also have an adorable outside area — which magically avoids the Outer Sunset wind.
I’m particularly fond of the natural oil perfumes and the all natural makeup/​toiletries which General Store carries here. Fat and the Moon —
which you can now find at a variety of exceptional local stores in the Bay Area — is my favorite natural cosmetic brand. I adore their deodorant cream and their lip and cheek stain. Both are packaged so simply and perfectly and are staples in my everyday routine.
I stopped in here yesterday and had a number of questions in regards to some of the natural toiletry products. There was literally three staff members working — and none of them seemed too interested in helping me with my questions. I decided that I’d just buy the products online rather than spend money at a place that generally seems un-​excited to assist you.
It’s always a bummer when a well curated local store that carries exceptional local goods — just doesn’t seem to care too much about connecting people with their products.
Trust.

VERY VERY Cute store.
Next time I am in the area I will plan to spend more time browsing around.
There is a really cute garden in the back and I plan to one day move in the back :)

1. Employees are wack. Walked in with my gf and the two ladies working did not even take a moment to greet us nor look up to see if we needed any help. Slammed the door on the way out. Hope that woke them up.
2. Overpriced thrift shop.
Will not be returning.

The General Store is a lovely little store located on Judah. There is not much going on around this shop, so it may be hard to come across this place. My boyfriend and I decided to check it out after eating at a restaurant nearby.
We entered the store, and we were not welcomed by the employee. She kept on going about her internet endeavorers.
The store is wonderful. It had various items that are sure to catch your eye. It is filled with all kinds of stuff, hence the name. This would be a great place to purchase gifts and even some household items, but it is a bit pricey.
Despite the price, it was fun checking out the items they sold.

Everything about General Store appeals to me; it might not to you. Sure, the hipstery crowd waiting and waiting and waiting in line at Outerlands probably like it, too.
The merch is a nice selection of mostly hand crafted goods, the store inside is cleverly designed and the backyard screams «Sunset» and you just know you’re on the Pacific Rim.
Some things are very expensive, but not everything. It’s just beautiful, and worth a detour to a neighborhood some of you think is just too far out.